Like anyone else around Cleveland, George Hoffman has gotten used to all the chatter about the city’s sports championship drought, about the fact that no major local team has won a trophy since 1964, about how LeBron James and the Cavaliers this month could end 51 years of fan suffering.
But when Hoffman, 74, hears people rehashing those same old story lines, he has one thought: “They’re wrong, and it bothers the hell out of me,” he said, albeit in somewhat more colorful language.
Hoffman, to be clear, has long been an admirer of James and would love to see the Cavaliers beat the Golden State Warriors and win their first N.